Saturday, March 26, 2016

American Crime Family Advances On The White House — Paul Craig Roberts

Has any American previously been able to run for the presidential nomination while being under investigation by the FBI for security violations?

That Hillary Rodham Clinton so easily escapes accountability indicates the immunity of those who serve the deep stateAnd serve the deep state the Clintons certaintly do as is indicated by the $153 million in “speaking fees”—read bribes and payoffs—that CNN and Fox News report the Clintons have been paid by Wall Street, the mega-banks, and corporate America

This sum does not include campaign donations or bribes and donations to the Clinton Family Foundation

Mike Loftgren defines the deep state as the powerful private interest groups (the One Percent) and the more or less permanent personnel who comprise the One Percent’s operatives in the government

Despite the appearance of blatant corruption, Hillary is in the lead for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, largely by virtue of DNC gifted SuperDelegates, not actual votes

Either American voters are inured to political corruption or something else is going on

Stephen Lendman reports Hillary, aided and abetted by the Democratic Party and election officials, is “winning” primaries through fraud

Clinton stole Iowa by rigged coin-flips, Massachusetts and Nevada by old-fashioned fraud, Arizona the same way on steroids

AZ voting was suppressed by greatly limiting the number of polling locations – forcing Arizonans to stand long hours in lines, denying thousands a chance to cast ballots once polling sites closed, or simply walking away in frustration

Many people were physically unable to stand under hot sun in line five hours to vote

In the 2012 primary, Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix the county seat), with over four million of the state’s 6.8 million population had 200 polling places. It had just 60 on 22 March 2016

The outcome was predictable, rigged to assure Clinton won

With 1% of the vote counted, media scoundrels declared her victory – with thousands still in line unable to vote.

Was Sanders denied victory rightfully his?

In 2008, voter turnout was 250,000, on 22 March 2016 voter turnout was just 83,000

On Wednesday, Sanders said, “(w)hat happened yesterday in Arizona should be considered a national disgrace”

Arizona was classic electoral theft

The voting process was again rigged for Clinton, perhaps an indication of what’s coming in November to stop the more popular Trump if all other methods fail

Thousands had their party affiliation changed from Democrat to Independent or other designation, preventing them from votingIn California, registered voters just received a yellow card titled "Law allows you to pick a party ballot" that offered only the choice of Democrat Party, American Independent Party, Libertarian Party. No Republican Party, thus deliberately cutting down the votes for Trump.

Pat Buchanan described the plot of the 1% neoconservatives to steal the Republican nomination from Donald Trump

That the plot is publicly known and not hidden behind the scenes is an indication that the few who rule America are so confident of their power, that they are not afraid to reveal that the United States is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The only purpose of voting is to put a Democratic dress on the oligarchs' choices:

To
answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US
consists

Are we a special interest ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or are we our Constitution?Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people

Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose our Constitution is to lose our country

Does our Constitution still exist?

Let us examine the document and come to a conclusion

Our Constitution consists of a description of a Republic with three independent
branches, legislative, executive, and judicial, each with its own
powers, and the Bill of Rights incorporated as constitutional
amendments

The Bill of Rights describes the civil liberties of
citizens that cannot be violated by our government

Two articles
describe the major powers of Congress, and both articles have been
breached

The Constitution’s grant of “all legislative powers” to
Congress has been overturned by executive orders and signing statements

The Presidents used executive orders to legislate, and used
signing statements to render sections of laws passed by Congress and
signed by the President into non-enforced status, for example border control immigration laws

Legislative authority has also been lost by delegating to executive branch
officials the power to write the regulations that implement the laws
that are passed

The right that Section 8 gives to Congress to declare
war has been usurped by the executive branch

Thus, major powers given
to Congress were lost to the executive branch

The First Amendment has been compromised by executive branch claims of “National Security,” by extensive "Classifications" and 4 million government security clearances exceeding the population of Norway rendering government accountability under FOIA Freedom of Information Act moot

The right of assembly and public protest are overturned
by arrests, bullying, tear gas, clubs, rubber bullets, water cannons, and jail
terms

Free speech is also limited by political correctness and taboo
topics

Dissent shows signs of gradually becoming criminalized

The
Fourth Amendment is a dead letter amendment. In its place we have
warrantless searches, SWAT team home invasions, strip and cavity
searches at Transportation Nodes, warrantless seizures of computers, cell phones, their content, and the
loss of all privacy to warrantless universal spying

The Fifth Amendment is a dead letter amendment. The criminal justice system relies on self-incrimination as plea bargains are self-incrimination produced by psychological torture, and plea bargains are the basis of conviction in 97% of all felony cases

Moreover,
physical torture is a feature of the “War on Terror” despite its
illegality under both US statute and International Law, also
experienced by inmates in the US prison system

The Fifth Amendment’s protection against deprivation of life, liberty, and property without due process of law has been lost to indefinite detention, executive assassination, and property takings without compensation

The
“War on Terror” introduced secret evidence and secret witnesses,
making it impossible for a defendant and his attorney to defend against undisclosed evidence

The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of excessive bail and torture are routinely violated. It is another dead letter amendment

It is paradoxical that every Civil Liberty in the Bill of Rights has been
lost to a police state except for the Second Amendment, the gun rights
of citizens, which have been compromised and eliminated in certain jurisdictions

An armed citizenry is inconsistent with a Police State,
which the US now is

Other aspects of our legal protections were overturned, such as the long standing rule that crime requires intent

Attorney-client privilege was lost

Our Civil Liberties are often said to be “Natural Rights” to which we are entitled. However, in historical fact, Civil Liberty is a human achievement that required centuries of struggle from Alfred the Great Common Law and the Magna Carta, before and beyond

Today law as a shield of the people has been lost

The loss was gradual over time and culminated in the George W. Bush and Obama regime assaults on habeas corpus and due process

We cut down the law so that we could better chase after the MafiaWe cut down the law so that we could better chase after drug users

We cut down the law so we could better chase after tax cheats

We cut down the law so that we could better chase after child abusers

We cut down the law so that we could better chase after “terrorists”We cut down the law so that we could better chase after whistleblowers

We cut down the law so that we could better cover up government crimesToday the law is cut down

Any one of us can be arrested on bogus charges and be helpless to do anything about it

Public defenders became useless Government regulators became uselessGovernment courts became useless

ACLU is not defending the civil liberties in the Bill of Rights that
protect us from the abuse of government power, but newly invented “civil
rights” not in the Constitution, such as “abortion rights,”
the right to homosexual marriage, and rights to preferential treatment
for preferred minorities

President Obama declared his power to execute citizens by
executive branch decision alone, without due process and conviction in
court, and it produced barely audible protest

Historically, a government that can, without due process, throw a
citizen into a dungeon or summarily execute him is considered to be a
tyranny, not a democracy